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With a mammoth year coming to a close it's only right that I present a mammoth Behind The Lines! Personally, I experienced a lot of amazing things this year including The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics right outside my window. DLBN had its 10 year anniversary where we managed to pull off hosting a virtual prog rock festival in celebration of the event. Plus there was the travelling - trips to Hawaii, Desolation Sound, the UK, and to New York where I saw Transatlantic play live! This was a year I will remember for a long time to come. It was a great one which also had some great releases - do join me as we explore some of the best ones!

Behind The Lines returns once again to sooth your ears with the sounds of progification old and new. Sit back with your ears open wide and let the music flow into your cranial cavities in the hopes that this uniquely awesome stimuli shall encourage the natural release of endogenous opioid peptides from the squishy gray matter above your face!

Once upon a time there was a lonely bit (a 1 for anyone curious). This bit found itself, somewhat inexplicably to its way of thinking, hurtling through time and space through a tubular structure to a mysterious destination far away and unknown. As it passed through the lands of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, if finally found itself headed at break neck speeds towards Quebec (even though it had no neck and spoke no French). The lonely bit had had had quite enough of this unnerving and overwhelming voyage so by the time it hit Montreal it was ready for a stiff drink, except didn’t know about drinks thus was forced to be content with the feeling of relief that accompanied the apparent end of this emotionally overwhelming ordeal. With said assumption fresh in its little bit mind, the shock it felt when it found out that a strange box in Montreal just copied it thousands of times over and over again was immense! Before the bit could say 0 it found itself copied many times and thrown in succession with many other similar yet slightly different bits to all corners of the globe. And all the bits, no longer lonely since they now had each other for company within the great tubular structures, flowed into many computers and into mobile devices. They all now knew the nature of these devices with their newly found collective knowledge. And the previously lonely bit now with all its brothers and sisters, finally found its journey to be over and even now is resting comfortably within the neurons of your brain. It, combined with all of its bit kin, comprise the following:

Join me for the penultimate Behind The Lines of 2011! Featured in this edition are a number of new tracks I’ve been exposed to recently as well as a random call out to a loyal BTL listener to help move the show forward! Let the musical bliss engulf your spirit so that all that remains is a quivering pile of incoherence vibrating to the frequencies of the following:

The final show of 2011 is upon us! Tune in as we explore some of the more unusual releases of the last year. Plus, I’m joined by Tom and John Galgano of IZZ to discuss the band’s recent DVD release as well as the group’s future plans!! Thanks to everyone for enjoying many musical voyages with me over the last year and here’s to another great one in 2012 (assuming we don’t all die!)

Out with the old and in with the new! Broadcasting new material in a new year and in a new home! Included in this new edition of the show is a Behind The Lines exclusive featuring a new track from the upcoming IZZ album to be released in the near future! If you’re looking for a taste of what this album will be all about, look no further!

Thunder In Review: The famously infamous combination of Shawn & Alistair return to have an in depth look at O.S.I.’s latest album “Fire Make Thunder” released earlier in 2012! Now that the words are here for the taking, be prepared for anything!

In July of this year the prog scene saw the release of “Speak” from Jason Hart’s “I and Thou” from New York City. Jason , who is currently playing keyboards with Renaissance and having worked with artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Karen Ann and others, met with overwhelmingly favourable reviews of this debut release, Jason joins us to discuss the album and the voyage of its creation!

This edition of BTL is for fellow DLBN Broadcaster Eric Arthur who is working his way through his recovery after a nearly life ending stroke last July. We at the station miss Eric around this place and many felt the urge to produce our own tribute shows for him to enjoy during his voyage back. Eric’s show “Love Letters” focuses on live material, now so will this edition of BTL! We raise our glasses high to his speedy return.

Often through my life I have the good fortune of meeting many excellent people. During conversations I'm regularly asked about what DLBN is all about and I always struggle to explain it succinctly and eloquently. After all, it's the ever present question that is always asked by music enthusiasts everywhere yet seems to have no definitive answer. What is progressive rock? According to Wikipedia it's a genre of music "intended to break the boundaries of traditional rock music by bringing in a greater and more eclectic range of influences, including free-form and experimental compositional methods, as well as new technological innovations." True, but even that definition has changed over the years and the Wikipedia article quoted above has multiple flagged issues. This edition of Behind The Lines is the first in a series of what will be my own attempt to musically answer this question. Sit back, relax, and enjoy!